Our Next Main Guests:

Dana &

Susan Robinson

15th March

March 8th -  Performers’ Night (Eve And The Garden postponed due to illness)

March 15th - Dana & Susan Robinson - admission £8

Dana & Susan Robinson are based in Asheville, North Carolina. Dana has made seven albums, three with Susan, featuring guitar, fiddle, mandolin and banjo. Most showcase Dana’s songs, written in traditional style - some being road songs in the Woody Guthrie manner. But he also says of their album “Native Soil”: “I could never write the way I do without the influence of traditional music. Scots, Irish and African music has been recycled over generations, to become something uniquely American.” It promises to be an outstanding night.

Don’t miss them on their short tour of the UK.  There will be a short opening set from Harvest Moon

Click here to listen to the traditional song “Say Darlin’ Say”

by Dana & Susan Robinson

March 29th - Linda Watkins - admission £4

Linda Watkins grew up in the heart of South Wales in a musical family with Irish connections. That explains her interest in Celtic traditions and songs along with the fact that she’s been singing in both English and Welsh since

the age of three. First and foremost, she is a singer-songwriter with a passion for melody. With a guitar style that ranges from delicate folk accompaniment to a strident and percussive contemporary sound, Linda’s style carries through to her use of other instruments including bodrhan and mandolin.

Currently Linda performs alongside bass player Mike Moyse who also provides excellent harmonies with his gentle, folky voice.

Click on play to hear "Emily's Rainbow"

written and sung by Linda Watkins, the title track from her latest CD

April 12th - Kevin Dempsey & Joe Broughton - admission £8

These two virtuosi of guitar and fiddle like to do their own thing, when they're not earning their crusts with

Mary Black, Whippersnapper, Percy Sledge, Bellowhead, Uiscedwr and the Albion Band. Joe has been playing since he was in the pram and has a PhD in circus skills and mad banter. Kevin has been around a bit longer and has played a few more notes.They draw on folk music from around the world but add their own touches of jazz, soul, classical, pop and rock to make the result something entirely original.

Click on play to hear Dempsey & Broughton play an

instrumental called “Two Stick Mountain”

April 26th - Chris Tobin - admission £4

Chris Tobin is a popular performer and well known in the area for his jazz-tinged versions of standards from people like Fats Waller,The Inkspots and Chris Montez, among many others. Tonight he’ll be combining his talents with a variety of different collaborators who themselves will be providing the “Performers’ Night” part of the proceedings.

It’s rumoured that they will include Anne Bowden (from Harvey Band), Julie Neale, Dave Cook (formerly of Little Mountain), Jon Harrington and Chris Walmsley, a multi-instrumentalist in his own right. It’s shaping up to be a fascinating evening of music!

Click on play to hear Chris Tobin sing the jazz standard “Ain’t Misbehavin”

(written by Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf and Fats Waller)